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Building: HKSAR Government Headquarters
Location: 2 Tim Mei Ave, Admiralty, Hong Kong, China
Completed: 2011
Architect : Rocco Design Architects
Landscape Architect: HOK
Project Team: Rocco Yim, Bernard Hui, William Tam, C M Chan, Henry Ho, Boris Lo, Lucia Cheung, William Lee, Wicky Choi, Herbert Hung, Ivy Yung, Queenie Szeto, Angela Fong, Joseph Kong, Sze Hoi Wai, Alonzo Cheng, Chan Chi Chung, Fiona Ching, Chris Wong, Tong Hui Ching, Ivan Chui, David Ho, Dathan Wun, Gary Ng, Agnus Lau, Mike Morgan
Consultants: Architectural Services Department (ASD)

AE Interests: The complex integrates three government facilities: the Legislative Council Complex, the Government Offices, and the Chief Executive’s Office. Disposition of the blocks allows the prevailing wind to penetrate the inner city providing ventilation through the Open Door passage, it also allows solar access to the site from the south, while the stepped heights of the buildings allow airflow mixing and recirculation, channeling wind from higher elevations to enhance air ventilation at pedestrian level. The Central Government Offices have double roof photovoltaic solar panels installed while the Chief Executive’s Office has thermal chimney, full height atrium as well as a green solar screen on its west – facing wall. Water conservation has been implemented and rain water collected has been recycled for landscape irrigation

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Building: LHT Tower (Luk Hoi Tong Building)
Location: 31 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong, China
Completed: 2011
Architect: Rocco Design Architects
Structural Engineer: Greg Wong & Associates
MEP Engineer: J. Roger Preston
Main Contractor: Gammon Construction
Consultant: Greg Wong & Associates

AE Interests: A re-construction of the former Luk Hoi Tong Building and Queen’s Theatre. It is comprised of 29 stories and 14,000 m² of mixed-use premium office. The non-linear folding of the curtain wall gives an impression of a stage curtain, opening to reveal the office and retail spaces within and creating a subtle reference to the iconic Queen’s Theatre that previously occupied the site.

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Building: Xinhee Design Center
Location: Xiamen, China
Status: Under Construction
Architect: MAD Architects
Design Team : J Travis Russett, Flora Lee, Liu Huiying, Fu Changrui, Xu Chen, Li Yuanhao, Julian Sattler, Jei Kim, Jakob Beer, Younjin Park, Liu Ling, Ma Ning, Sear Nee, Zhu Jinglu, Liang Zhongyi, Sarita Tejasmit, Natalia Giacomino, Zeng Lingyue
Associate Engineer : CCDI Group
Façade Consultant : RFR Asia, Front
Interior Design : Gold Mantis, Kangyang Architecture Consultancy (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
Landscape Architect : Cicada Landscape Architecture, Hordor Design Group
Lighting Design : United Artists Lighting Design
BIM : Gehry Technologies Co., Ltd.
Wind Tunnel Consultant : Guangdong Provincial Academy of Building Research Group
Acoustics Consultant : Shen Milsom Wilke, LLC
Cost Consultant : Shanghai PM First Track Co., Ltd.

AE Interests: The design center is for the international fashion group, Xinhee, and its six subsidiary brands. It has a site area of 15,000 square meters with building area of 61,000 square meters. The spatial organization mimics six petals, growing from a central point. Each of the six brands have their own individual office and research space, yet can freely interact and communicate between departments. A mix of office spaces and green gardens compose each of the organically-formed arms. A translucent and sun-shading envelope of PTFE hangs slightly off the vertical garden, and provides ventilation during the hot season. The atrium’s footbridge provides air circulation, and doubles as a catwalk for occasional fashion shows.

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Building: The LOOP
Location: Chongqing, China
Architect: LWK + PARTNERS
Landscape Design Consultant: SWA + Dao Yuan Landscape Consultants, SWA +
Curtain Wall Design Consultant: Shanghai Anvan Design Consulting Co. Ltd.
Completed: 2017

AE Interests: circular volumes that intend to integrate into the contours of the site, embraces the shapes of nature, crescent-shaped glass-bottomed bridge, full steel frame structure, onion-ring-like cladding system, quality stone slabs, large windows, stone facade
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Building: Novartis Campus Building
Location: Shanghai, Pudong, China
Architect: Zhang Ke, ZAO/standardarchitecture
Project Manager: Margret Domko
Design Team: Zhang Ke, Leonardo Colucci, Margret Domko, Johan Kinnucan, Alessandro Colli, Joao Dias Pereira
Structure/MEP: AECOM
Local Design Institute: Tongji University Architecture Design Institute
Façade Supervisor: Terry Bell
Façade Consultant: RFR
Interior Consultant: Sevel Peach
Interior Design Schematic &DD: standardarchitecture
Interior Construction Documentation: EXH
Landscape Designer: Teresa Moller
Lighting Design: LDC
Design: 2010 – 2016
Construction: 2012-2016
Occupation: 2016

AE Interests: organic grid system, outdoor courtyards, Lightness is upheld as an overall value, semi outdoor passage from the public open space, private gardens, contemporary local masonry and a geometric-inspired, abstract simplicity, contrast of colors
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Building: Victims of Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall
Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Architects: He Jingtang, Ni Yang, Architectural Design & Research Institute of South China University of Technology
Completed: 2015

AE Interests: Modest and Downy Form, Green Park Integrated into Urban Life, Open and Accessible Design, public day- night park, dark red rust plate, single cast of fair-bare concrete, green roof,
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Building: Ningbo Historic Museum
Location: Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Architect: Wang Shu, Amateur Architecture Studio
Structural: Shentu Tuanbing, Chen Yongbing
Construction Supervisor: Hu Jun
Completed: 2008

AE Interests: Museum, Solid Construction, Flat Roof, Facade General, Masonry, Reinforced Concrete, Concrete Moulded With Bamboo Canes, Natural Stone, Wapan, Recycled Materials 

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Building: Hiroshima Chapel
Location: Naka-Ku, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Wood Panel Design: Jotaro Saito
Lighting: Style Ma’tec
Constructor: Takashimaya Space Create Co., Ltd.
Construction: 2014

AE Interests: wood lattice, self-supporting, sunlight, interior design, nature

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Building: YKK80
Location: Chiyoda-Ku, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Civil/Structural Engineer: Kimiaki Harada
General Contractors: Kajima Corporation, Toda Corporation, and Daiwa House Industry Corporation, Ltd.
Mechanical/Electrical: So Takizawa, Sin Horikawa, Kitaro Mizuide
Construction: 2015

AE Interests: aluminum screen facade, shading, radiant heating, energy, office space

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Building: Tokyu Plaza Ginza
Location: Chuo, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Civil/Structural Engineers: Yuji Yamano + Satoru Ueno & Nikken Sekkei
Mechanical/Electrical: Kosuke Sato + Koichiro Hara & Nikken Sekkei
Construction: 2016
General Contractors: Infix Design Inc., Nikken Sekkei

AE Interests: Vessel of light, glass facade, reflection, commercial, urban integration

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Building: Suzhou Modern Media Plaza
Address: Nanshi St, Wuzhong, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Location: Suzhou, China
Completed: 2016
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Co Architect: ARTS Group Co., Ltd.
Structural Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
MEP Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Main Contractor: Zhongyifeng Construction Group Co., Ltd
Façade Engineer: Aurecon, Shenyang Yuanda Aluminium Industry Engineering Co., Ltd

AE Interests: Two L-shaped towers connected by an M-shaped truss made of glass, curtain wall systems, metal frame curtain wall windows that allow overlapping natural light and shadows, perforated metal panels on the exterior.

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Building: K11 (2013)
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect: Kokaistudios
Lighting: Isometrix
MEP: AECO
Landscape Architect: Hassell
LEED Consultant: Arup
Facade Design: KWP+SEELE

AE Interest: Retrofitted from New World Tower podium levels. Core and Shell LEED Gold Certification for Existing Buildings. Focuses on the relationship between the buildings and its surroundings. Double height atrium underground with skylight that require complicated geometric design and precision installation.

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Building: Shanghai Greenland Center
Address: 562 Dong An Lu, Xuhui Qu, Shanghai Shi, China
Location: Shanghai, China
Completed: 2017
Lead Architects: Lu Zhong Xiao, Tetsuo Tonouchi, Hiroyuki Suga / NIKKEN SEKKEI
Co Architect: East China Construction Group Co., Ltd.
Landscape Design: mindscape
Commercial Space Design: Studio Taku Shimizu Inc

AE Interests: Rooftop green space and park above a commercial facility and subway station, two office buildings and a SOHO building, sloping roofs allow views across city, separated buildings create a street-like atmosphere, louvers and shade fins that create a changing façade, large windows and openings allow for natural light.

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Building: Hongqiao Flower Building (2015)
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect: MVRDV
Structure: Shanghai Construction Design and Research Institute
MEP: China Team ENgineering Consultants
Landscape Architect: SWA Landscape Architecture
Sustainability Consultant: China Academy of Building Research
Facade Design: EFC Facade Design

AE Interest: The building form allows it to be self shading, thus drastically reducing energy consumption. The Flower Building also received a 3-star energy rating, a Chinese classification for the ‘Green Building Label.’ Utilizes green roofs, natural ventilation, rainwater collection, and permeable roadways.

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Building: Shanghai Bund CITIC Plaza
Address: No. 859 Sichuan Road, Hongkou
Location: Shanghai, China
Completed: 2010
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Construction design collaboration: Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design & Research and Shanghai Mingkong International Design Co., Ltd.
Structural Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
MEP Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Main Contractor: China Construction Fourth Engineering Division Corp. Ltd. 
Landscape Consultant: a-i-sha Architectural Design Consulting., Ltd

AE Interests: high-rise office building with natural ventilation openings that appear as feathers on the façade, a plaza and commercial space on the ground level that together create lanes which resemble the structure of traditional Chinese housing blocks.

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Building: Tokyo SkyTree
Location: Sumida, Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Nikken Seikei
Contractor: Obayashi Corp
Developer: Tobu Railway
Lighting Designer: Sirius Lighting Office
Completion: 2012

AE Interests: Second Tallest Structure in the world at completion with a total height of 2,080 feet. Triangular base and triangular framing means reduced steel usage. Main structure made from Steel tube frames and steel channels. Central column Vibration control used to reduce wind and earthquake loads by as much as 40%. Also functions as a broadcasting and telecommunications tower.

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Building: DAIMYO509 Commercial Space
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Architect: CASE-REAL
Structural Engineer: Ohno Japan
Lighting Engineer: ModuleX FUKUOKA
Construction: Kyushukensetsu  Co., Ltd.
Completed: 2018

AE Interest: Concrete Structure, pillars enclosed in walls for maximizing tenant space, mechanical hidden on roof

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Building: Isozaki Atea Towers
City: Bilbao, Spain
Architect: Arata Isozaki, Iñaki Aurrekoetxea
Contractor: Fincas Abando
Structural Engineering: Robert Brufau y Asociados
Completion: 2008

AE Interests: Atea means Gate in the Basque Language, meant to be the entrance into Bilbao. The entire project is actually multiple high-rise buildings that are mixed use.  Reused existing foundations.

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Building: Boltun Headquarters
Location: Saitama, Japan
Architect: Atelier TEKUTO
Structural Engineer: June Sato Structural Engineers
Contractor: Shigeki Matsuoka, Shinichi Uchimura, Koji Izawa
Completed: 2018

AE Interest: Concrete structure, designed to be lightweight, soundproofing and fireproofing

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Building: Ogimachi Global Dispensing Pharmacy
Location: Osaka, Japan
Architect: ninkipen!
Structural Engineer: TAPS
Lighting Engineer: Hiroyuki Nagatomi
Contractor: Ikeuchi Komuten
Completed: 2011

AE Interest: Steel and wood, narrow slot between existing buildings, gabled roof

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Building: Delis Yokohama Building
City: Yokohama, Japan
Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Visualization: Teppei Iizuka, Soichiro Harada, Shoki An
Model: Takeshi Terasawa, Toshiko Tokai, and Saki Osaka
Completion: 2018

AE Interests: The 850-panel aluminum façade that is an interpretation of noise. Multipurpose building for restaurants and office space. Designed to attract foot traffic. The façade lights up at night.

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Wooden Bridge Museum – Yusuhara, Japan

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Building: Wooden Bridge Museum
Location: Yusuhara, Japan
Architect: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Structure: Katsuo Nakata & Associates
Utilities, Equipment: Sigma Facility Design
Construction: Shimanto Sogo Construction
Electrical: Showa Denki Kogyo
Completed: 2011

AE Interest: Cantilever bridge design, connects a hotel and spa, contains work and exhibition rooms

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Kojimachi Terrace – Tokyo, Japan

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Building: Kojimachi Terrace
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Nendo
Project Year: 2019

AE Interest: Three story open air garden, balconies on six of eleven floors, windows allow natural air to enter

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De Beers Ginza Building – Tokyo, Japan

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Building: De Beers Ginza Building
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Jun Mitsui & Associates
Metal Architect: Kikukawa
Structural Engineer: TAISEI Corporation
Electrical Engineer: TAISEI Corporation
Construction Company: TAISEI Corporation
Completed: 2008

AE Interest: Twisting facade, reflects sunlight and city lights in an ever changing way, sparkling light subtly reflects that of a diamond

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Building: Mokuzai Kaikan
Location: Koto, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Structural Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Mechanical Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Lighting: Hideto Mori, Lighting M
Contractor: Taisei Corporation
Owner: Tokyo Lumber Wholesalers Association
Completion: 2009

AE Interests: Wood as urban construction material for wood wholesaler office, use of Numerical Control Machining for precision in cutting wood, steel reinforced concrete cast in cedar frames for seismic design, dividers allow flow between spaces, use of semi-outdoor spaces called engawas, tall ceiling height for fire safety

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Building: Miyahata Ruins Museum
Location: Fukushima, Japan
Architect: Furuichi and Associates and Suzuki Sekkei
Structural Engineer: Holzstr
Contractor: Hazama Ando Corporation
Completion: 2015

AE Interests: Museum dedicated to studying Jomon time period, exposed concrete exterior and interior, structural ceiling resembles caves, use of Vectorworks to design hexagonal timber ceiling panels, metal roof, structural glass floors expose excavated ruins beneath, primary form language is rectilinear

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Building: Toho Gakuen School of Music Chofu Campus
Location: Chofu, Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Structural Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Mechanical Engineer: Nikken Sekkei
Acoustics: Nikken Sekkei
Contractor: Shimizu Corporation
Completion: 2014

AE Interests: Music room ‘village’, light courts, sunken courtyards to bring in light, curtain wall around campus lobby, open space to surrounding environment, rectilinear form, concrete block façade to reduce scale, unevenly spaced columns

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Building: Tsinghua Ocean Center
Location: Shenzen, China
Completed: 2016
Architects: OPEN Architecture, Local Design Institute, & Shenzhen Institute of Building Research

AE Interests: Exposed structural concrete found all throughout; allows for easy maintenance and provides visual relief from surrounding stucco buildings. Academic spaces are compartmentalized with public/social spaces found in between floors. Underneath the plaza is a deep-sea research lab. Three potholes found in the main plaza allow light in from above.

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Building: Bishan Cultural and Art Center
Location: Bishan Qu, China 
Completed: 2016
Architect: Tanghua Architect & Associates
Acoustic Consultants: Lin Taiyong & Zhang Sanming

AE Interests: The 3 masses are a response to the surrounding landscape. A “valley” formed between the 3 buildings creating a gathering space for visitors. The curtain wall protects from the sunlight coming from the west. The curtain wall is made of glass, metal grilles, and aluminum mesh in the Chinese traditional pattern called ice crack.

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Building: Mjøstårnet (pronounce: Myoo-star-net)
Location: Brumunddal, Norway
Architect: Voll Arkitekter
Builder: AB Invest AS
Contractor: HENT AS
Subcontractor (Structural Timbers): Moelven Limtre 
Year: 2019

AE Interests:
World’s current tallest timber-framed building (280′ tall). Nicknamed “Plyscraper”, built almost entirely out of wood. Sustainably built by using local renewable resources. Wood naturally stores CO2 throughout it’s life, which contributes to it’s sustainability. Designed to withstand a complete burnout. Almost all interior structural timber left exposed to contribute to interior design `

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Building: Nanjing Performing Arts Center
Location: Nanjing, China 
Completed: 2009
Architect: Preston Scott Cohen, Amit Nemlich, & Atelier Zhang Lei (Chinese Architect of Record)

AE Interests: Concrete roof made from a series of hyperbolic paraboloids which act as reinforcing beams. The buildings are separated into several independent zones that can be isolated thermally if not in use.    

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Building: Eight Tenths Garden
Location: Shanghai, China
Architect: Wutopia Lab
LDI: Shanghai DuJuan Engineering Design and Consultants Limited
Interior Design: ShangRuiYuan Building Design Consultants Limited
Landscape Design: Atelier VISION
Interior & Landscape Design Consultant: Yu Ting
Year: 2016

AE Interests:
Micro cultural complex (ie. chess, library, coffee shop, offices, venue, museum). Tribute to ancient literati garden with roof vegetation garden. Contemporary Chinese courtyards. Curtain fencing wall using corrugated board, glazed tile, perforated aluminum (pattern is the pixel style of the “thousands of miles mountains and rivers”), aluminum grille with vertical green. Galvanized frame from original sales center building.

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Building: Encore Mount Wutai Theatre
Location: Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, China
Architect: BIAD-ZXD ARCHITECTS
Lighting: BIAD Lighting Design Studio
Structure / Air Conditioning / Water Supply: BIAD-John Martin International Architectural Design Co,. Ltd
Construction: MCC Tiangong Group Co., Ltd
Stage Design: Zhejiang Joinus cultural technology Co.,Ltd
Year: 2014

AEInterests:
730-meter-long slowly unfolding “Sutra Folds”. Mix of materials such as stone, glass and stainless steel. Folds constructed out of wood to display detailed and traditional Chinese wooden architecture.

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Building: Grin Grin Park
Location: Island City (Hakata Bay, North of Fukuoka, Japan)
Architect: Toyo Ito
Construction: 2004-2005

AE Interest: Grin Grin Park lies on an artificial island and moves the architecture through the site. The design of the landscape melds together building and site with materials that compliment the hilly artificial island such as sloping wooden ramps and large glass walls.

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Building: Hanamaruki Miso-Making Experience
Location: Ina Nagano near Shinjuku
Architect: Takenaka Corporation
Construction: 2017

AE Interest: Miso-Making hall is designed to provide the best possible tour of the factory and provide lectures and entertainment to guests who come to learn about the Hanamaruki Foods Inc. Miso process. The building is made of concrete folded-plate walls, and as such has no interior columns or beams.
The building won a 2017 International Architecture Award for corporate buildings.

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Building: Kanazawa Station
Location: Kanazawa: Ishikawa Prefecture
Architect: Ryuzo Shirae
Design/Construction: 2005

AE Interest: Overhaul of a 120-year-old building; The Tzuzimi-mon Gate is composed of radially angled beams cut from Japanese Cypress. The Motenashi dome is important to protect travelers from frequent snow.

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Building: Ginza Place
Location:  Tokyo, Japan
Architect:  Klein Dytham
Structural Engineer: Taisei Corporation
Lighting Design: Sirius Lighting Office
Contractor: Taisei Corporation
Owner/Developer:  Tsuzureya Co., Ltd

AE interests:
Woven facade created from 5,000 aluminum panels, inspired by traditional Sukashibori latticework pattern, smallest at the base to create a more human scale at street level, gaps between panels responsive to seismic activity

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Building: Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center
Location:  Tokyo, Japan
Architect:  Kengo Kuma and Associates
Structural Engineer: Makino Structural Design
Electrical Engineer:  Kankyo Engineering Inc.
Mechanical Engineer:  Kankyo Engineering Inc.
Lighting Design: Izumi Okayasu Lighting Design
Facade Design:  Ando Yoko Design
Owner/Developer:  Taito City
Construction: August 2010 – February 2012

AE interests:
Described structurally as 8 stacked “one-storied houses”, wood design (modern approach to traditional Japanese facades), geometric structure formed from intersecting planes, asymmetric perspectives

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Building: Toranomon Hills
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Nikken Sekkei, Inc.
Structural Engineer: Nikken Sekkei, Inc.
MEP Engineer: Shinryo Corp.; Kyudenko Corp.; Sanken Setsubi Kogyo Co.
Contractor: Obayashi Corporation
Owner/Developer: Mori Building
Construction: 2011-2014

AE interests:
Tallest building in Tokyo (838 ft), steel frame structure with reinforced concrete, architectural structure elevated above surrounding roads, seismic damping earthquake design, biodiversity-conscious open spaces, mixed use hotel/residential/retail

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Building: Golden Ridge – Upper Cloister
Location: Foot of the Great Wall : Beijing/Chengde
Architect: Atelier Deshaus
Design/Construction: 2016-Present

AE Interest: Site selection and planning in accordance to neighboring cities, views, and the Great Wall of China. Influenced by terraced farms, a common agricultural practice in Asia. Physical representation of the Chinese symbol “舍” in Zen Hall, where the symbol is split up into roof, beams and columns, and a base. Influenced by Foguang Temple.

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Building: Suzhou Chapel
Location: Suzhou Shi, China
Architect: Neri & Hu
Completed: 2016

AE Interest: “Floating” white box. Folded metal skin which works with light to expose/hide interior. Subtly hides in nature, combining brick and light while also exposing an almost luminescent cube. Multi-faith space made to accommodate people of different beliefs. Layered design- perforated metal skin and sliced white wall underneath.

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Building: Xiangmi Park Science Library
Location: Shenzhen Shi, China
Architect: MLA+
Landscape Design: ZEN Landscape
Completed: 2017

AE Interest: Merges traditional Chinese architecture and contemporary architecture. Tree top walkways. Lightweight materials. Integrated with nature. Made to feel as if you are walking through trees.

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Building: Sunwell Muse Kitasando
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architects: Takato Tamagami Architectural Design and Tsutomu Hasegawa of Be-Fun Design
Mechanical Engineer: ThreeQ
Structural Engineer: Kazunari Yoshida
Contractors: Toyoshima & Co, LTD and Moriya Co, LTD
Completion: 2008

AE interests:
Concrete block with organic wood cut outs, curved walls connect spaces, deliberate movement of people through the space, glass bridge

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Building: Hoto Fudo
Location: Yamanashi, Japan
Architect: Takeshi Hosaka Architects
Structural, environmental, and fire engineer: Arup
Completion: 2009

AE Interests: Plays with clouds/setting of Mt. Fuji, natural lighting, natural environmental systems; no AC, open doors, incorporates rain snow or fog, insulated sandwiched reinforced concrete shell stabilizes temperature and resists heavy snow and seismic loads, truss wall system fast tracked construction

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Building: ‘Minna No Mori’ Gifu Media Cosmos
Location: Gifu, Japan
Architect: Toyo Ito & Associates
Structural Engineering and Fire: Arup
Lighting: Lighting Planners Associates
Completion: 2015

AE Interests:
11 polyester hanging globes optimize air flow and natural lighting, cutting energy consumption by 40%. The curved wooden lattice roof was made by bending individual timber pieces on site.

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Roppongi Hills Mori Tower
Completed 2003
Minato, Tokyo Japan
Architecture Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) and Jerde
Local Architect: Irie Miyake Architects & Engineers
Structural: Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc.
Construction: Obayashi Corporation and Kajima Corporation
Owner: Mori

AE Interests:
Sixth tallest building in Tokyo at 781 ft. Mostly used for office space, but it also includes retail stores, restaurants, and other attractions. 
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